Free Cocktail API

The Free Cocktail API is a resource that provides access to a vast database of cocktail recipes, ingredients, and images.

Free Cocktail API publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Filter API, Lookup API, Search API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Beverages, Cocktails, Drinks, Ingredients, and Recipes.

The Free Cocktail API catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Free Cocktail API’s developer surface includes documentation and 6 more developer resources.

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22.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemium

1 published contract

Beverages Cocktails Drinks Ingredients Recipes

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 22.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 10.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.6 / 17

Access Clarity 1.3 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.9 / 11

Contract Governance 1.4 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 7.9 — up to +18.4 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 9.5 — up to +18.1 composite points
Contract Quality scores 47.0 — up to +13.3 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Free Cocktail API Filter API

Filter cocktails by ingredient, alcohol, category, or glass.

Free Cocktail API Lookup API

Look up full details by ID.

Free Cocktail API Search API

Search cocktails and ingredients.

Free Cocktail API Discovery API

The Discovery API from Free Cocktail API — 4 operation(s) for discovery.

Free Cocktail API Lists API

The Lists API from Free Cocktail API — 1 operation(s) for lists.

Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Free Cocktail Filter API

OPEN COLLECTION

Free Cocktail Filter List API

OPEN COLLECTION

Free Cocktail Filter Lookup API

OPEN COLLECTION

Free Cocktail Filter Random API

OPEN COLLECTION

Free Cocktail Filter Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Free Cocktail API

OPEN COLLECTION

Free Cocktail API pricing

Not yet checked against Free Cocktail API's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

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Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Free Cocktail API's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Free Cocktail Api Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Free Cocktail Api Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Free Cocktail API

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Free Cocktail Api Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Free Cocktail API API Rules

47 rules · 45 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Free Cocktail Api Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Free Cocktail Api Agentic Access

5 operations

5 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: free-cocktail-api
name: Free Cocktail API
description: The Free Cocktail API is a resource that provides access to a vast database of cocktail recipes, ingredients,
  and images.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/free-cocktail-api.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2025-01-07'
modified: '2026-05-19'
position: Consuming
tags:
- Beverages
- Cocktails
- Drinks
- Ingredients
- Recipes
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/free-cocktail-api/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: free-cocktail-api:free-cocktail-api-filter-api
  name: Free Cocktail API Filter API
  description: Filter cocktails by ingredient, alcohol, category, or glass.
  humanURL: https://www.thecocktaildb.com/api.php
  baseURL: https://www.thecocktaildb.com/api/json/v1
  tags:
  - Filter
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/free-cocktail-api-filter-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.thecocktaildb.com/api.php
- aid: free-cocktail-api:free-cocktail-api-lookup-api
  name: Free Cocktail API Lookup API
  description: Look up full details by ID.
  humanURL: https://www.thecocktaildb.com/api.php
  baseURL: https://www.thecocktaildb.com/api/json/v1
  tags:
  - Lookup
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/free-cocktail-api-lookup-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.thecocktaildb.com/api.php
- aid: free-cocktail-api:free-cocktail-api-search-api
  name: Free Cocktail API Search API
  description: Search cocktails and ingredients.
  humanURL: https://www.thecocktaildb.com/api.php
  baseURL: https://www.thecocktaildb.com/api/json/v1
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/free-cocktail-api-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.thecocktaildb.com/api.php
- aid: free-cocktail-api:free-cocktail-api-discovery-api
  name: Free Cocktail API Discovery API
  description: The Discovery API from Free Cocktail API — 4 operation(s) for discovery.
  humanURL: https://www.thecocktaildb.com/api.php
  baseURL: https://www.thecocktaildb.com/api/json/v1
  tags:
  - Discovery
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/free-cocktail-api-discovery-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.thecocktaildb.com/api.php
- aid: free-cocktail-api:free-cocktail-api-lists-api
  name: Free Cocktail API Lists API
  description: The Lists API from Free Cocktail API — 1 operation(s) for lists.
  humanURL: https://www.thecocktaildb.com/api.php
  baseURL: https://www.thecocktaildb.com/api/json/v1
  tags:
  - List
  tags_raw:
  - Lists
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/free-cocktail-api-lists-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.thecocktaildb.com/api.php
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/free-cocktail-api-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/free-cocktail-api-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/free-cocktail-api-finops.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/free-cocktail-api-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/free-cocktail-api-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.thecocktaildb.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.thecocktaildb.com/api.php
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Free Cocktail API — frequently asked questions

Does Free Cocktail API have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Free Cocktail API, including Free Cocktail API Filter API, Free Cocktail API Lookup API and Free Cocktail API Search API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Free Cocktail API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Free Cocktail API, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the Free Cocktail API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Free Cocktail API, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Free Cocktail API ready for AI agents?

Free Cocktail API has a Kin Score of 22.2 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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